Site Engineers: we engineer a site, much like a civil engineer, though with an emphasis on molding the land with an aesthetic value and give our work a meaning beyond meeting a grade/slope percentage. Landscape architects are a jack-of-all-trades: we are site engineers, horticulturists, planners, environmentalists, and architects. Landscape architecture is more than planting design. Though Civil View is availbale, that is mainly a visual tool for migrating Civil3D data to be viewed in 3DS Max and create renderings and animations. When can we expect to see Autodesk recognoize our profession and offer a set of tools specifically designed for us? And not forced to use a variety of different software applications to complete our work? Heck, even SketchUp realizes that Landscape Architecture is a large part of their customer base. There are more than enough firms out there to justify a product offering for us. Sure, there are plugins/add-on software for us, but for the most part they are expensive, and poorly-designed and bug-ridden. Revit could be used, but again, it is geared predominantly to Architects and BUILDING design and construction documentation.Īnd to be clear, I'm not talking about planting design, I'm talking about anything outside a building shell that is part of the built environment (take a look at or a google search: ). ![]() Map3D does offer some planning/analysis tools that otherwise we would use an ESRI product for. ![]() Sure, it offers some use for other design problems (trail alignment, grading parking lot design, grading lot platting etc.). ![]() Autodesk has done a great job designing and offering products for the majority of design disciplines, but has seemingly left a major discipline out of the mix.Īrchitects have AutoCAD Architecture and Revit.īut Landscape Architects are left to mesh multiple products together and none offers a complete solution.Ĭivil3D is geared predominantly towards civil engineers, especially roadway engineers.
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